Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles which provoked charges of obscenity. The first issue of Playboy was published in 1953 featuring Marilyn Monroe in a nude calendar shoot; it sold over 50,000 copies.
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| Full name at birth | Hugh Marston Hefner
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| Claim to fame | Founder of Playboy magazine
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| Date of birth | 9 April 1926
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| Place of birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA
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| Date of death | 27 September 2017
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| Age | 91 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
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| Cause of death | Natural Causes
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| Resting place | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA
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| Occupation | Magazine Publisher, Editor, Businessman, Reality Television Personality, Actor
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PERSONAL DETAILS
| Height | 5' 8" (173 cm)
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| Weight | 175 lbs (79 kg)
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| Dress size | 8
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| Shoe size | 10
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ADDITIONAL DETAILS
| Net worth | $50,000,000 USD
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| High school | Charles P. Steinmetz High School, Chicago, IL (1944)
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- In 1971, he acknowledged that he experimented in bisexuality.
- Hugh Hefner Reveals Gay Sex Encounter in Biography Steven Watts' Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream reveals that Hefner once had a gay sex encounter, which occurred in an unspecified time and an unnamed bar in Chicago. Hugh Hefner, who maintains that Watts' book "is all essentially true," said 'he was propositioned [by a man] and, thought, 'What the hell...'" He found it 'an interesting experience,"
- In 1988 turned his empire over to his daughter Christie Hefner.
- In 2005, Hugh attempted to create and Indian version of Playboy for India, which would feature South Asian women and Indian pop culture articles, but no nudity. He wanted to have Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai on the cover of the first issue. The magazine was rejected.
- Served in the U.S. Army in WWII after graduating from Steinmetz H.S. in Chicago, IL (1944).
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